Your task
in this activity is to create human body. Throughout the next several
projects you will be asked to create a model of the human body. You
can create the body through posters, booklets, or Powerpoint presentations.
Essential Question:
What are the important functions of the systems in the human body.
Focus questions - Human Genetics: Answer
these questions as you create your model of the human body:
What are genes? Where are they found?
How are chromosomes and genes related?
What are the names of the sex cells and how are sex cells different form
body cells?
What is the difference between dominant and recessive genes? Give an
example of a trait that is dominant, and one that is recessive.
How does each parent pass along his/her genes to the offspring?
Draw a Punnett Square for attached vs free ear lobes. (Use the Biology text
book pg. 552)
Who was Gregor Menel and how was his work important to the study of
genetics?
List ONE problem caused by genetic imperfections. List the symptoms
and any cures.
What is the human Genome Project? How might it help humanity?
Definitions of Important Terms. (Make sure to
define these terms using examples from your body model.)